Speakers to be announced.

The conference will focus on two main areas of interest:

Blood donation

• Donor selection: new challenges and risk-based approach
• Blood donor recruitment and retention
• Challenges for blood supply in Europe
• Blood collection
• Testing: from phenotype testing to genomics

Blood components

• Innovative and novel blood components / blood component preparations 
• Innovation and involvement of users in development of novel blood components
• Process changes implementation, risk-based approach
• EDQM Blood Guide monographs for innovative and novel blood components
• Novel component development and clinical outcome monitoring

A detailed scientific programme of the conference will be released soon.